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12-12-19 Garand Picture of the Day - Watts Riots
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Don't know where you got 1967 from but...there are volumes written about Watts. The areas destroyed were in many cases still lying fallow when they did the next set of riots. Buildings were just left in a heap all that time.
Watts riots - Wikipedia
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Originally Posted by
Tom in N.J.
1967?...but where?
You must be a "youngster", Los Angeles! I was 15 living in NY at the time...
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I was younger, just 11 but remember all of it, lived across the river from Detroit. When that imploded we watched it burn from miles away. "Black day in July"... Yes, this was L.A.
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There were eleven major riots that year in the U.S. Many destroyed communities that have never recovered, such as Plainfield, NJ.
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I967 was the "long hot summer". In New Jersey... riots in Newark. I was in a squad car of a bordering town, with a M1A1
carbine on the floor ( which I never used). There were 159 riots nation wide in 1967, including the one in Plainfield, NJ. The Watts riot took place in 1965.
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After the 1965 Watts riots, my NJ Guard battalion formed a special Riot Platoon and I was put in charge of it. I got out of the Guard in early 1967 about a month before the Newark riots, and my pal Dave took it over. I worked in the Merrill Lynch Newark office on Broad Street. They closed the city so I went to work on my motorcycle and entered through the Italian section (no trouble at all because of armed tough guys standing on corners). I and a secretary who lived two blocks away were the only ones in the office, and we answered phones all morning. The head shed in New York was frantic, called for updates about every ten minutes. At one point, four deuce-and-a-halfs pulled up under our office windows and my old riot platoon dismounted! I seriously considered speeding back home for my uniform, but they marched off towards the smoke while I dithered. The stories Dave told were mind-boggling. The Guard expended 50,000 rounds of 30-06 but they put the riot down in three days.
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